As a cautionary disclaimer, CiteSeer notes the following about its list:
``This list does not include citations where one or more authors of the citing and cited articles match, or citations where the relevant author is an editor. An entry may correspond to multiple authors (e.g. J. Smith). This list is automatically generated and may contain errors. Citation counts may differ from search results because this list is generated in batch mode whereas the database is continually updated. A total of 629254 authors were found.''
In particular, some cryptographers have been omitted from this list because there is more than one person of that same name in the database, and the CiteSeer list has bundled them together, rendering the counts innaccurate for our purposes. One should also note that in some cases below the bulk of the author's work reflecting the citation counts is not in cryptography. For this and other reasons, the data below should be treated with care.
RANK. NAME: Number of citations
5. R. Rivest: 6437
88. A. Shamir: 3141
100. S. Micali: 3005
103. O. Goldreich: 2970
127. S. Goldwasser: 2740
206. M. Bellare: 2229
255. M. Luby: 2041
307. D. Chaum: 1888
351. M. Naor: 1783
396. M. Yung: 1671
415. L. Adleman: 1640
440. M. Blum: 1591
506. A. Fiat: 1503
679. U. Feige: 1276
687. P. Rogaway: 1269
698. J. Kilian: 1257
706. S. Even: 1247
801. C. Dwork: 1160
860. B. Schneier: 1116
865. R. Impagliazzo: 1111
883. G. Brassard: 1096
928. C. Schnorr: 1067
998. D. Coppersmith: 1019
1078. J. Nielsen: 966
1095. H. Niederreiter: 959
1168. A. Odlyzko: 919
1248. M. Hellman: 885
1273. H. Krawczyk: 877
1290. J. Massey: 870
1291. B. Chor: 869
1319. R. Canetti: 858
1327. P. van Oorschot: 852
1379. S. Vanstone: 830
1409. J. Feigenbaum: 818
1450. C. Rackoff: 801
1498. A. Lenstra: 786
1612. E. Biham: 751
1657. T. Okamoto: 737
1699. W. Diffie: 724
1712. D. Stinson: 721
1781. D. Wagner: 705
1901. D. Boneh: 674
2019. H. Imai: 647
2053. V. Shoup: 640
2057. Y. Desmedt: 640
2214. E. Kushilevitz: 608
2283. D. Beaver: 594
2316. M. Waidner: 587
2330. R. Ostrovsky: 583
2418. I. Damgard: 568
2444. J. Stern: 564
2484. T. Pedersen: 558
2535. Y. Frankel: 550
2953. T. Rabin: 490
3163. R. Merkle: 464
3180. A. Herzberg: 462
3283. M. Wiener: 452
3385. C. Jutla: 440
3391. L. Knudsen: 440
3416. R. Gennaro: 438
3446. H. Williams: 435
3457. G. Simmons: 434
3539. A. Young: 426
3604. N. Koblitz: 420
3607. U. Maurer: 420
3673. E. Brickell: 413
3683. R. Cramer: 412
3700. J. Quisquater: 411
3767. B. Pfitzmann: 403
3777. M. Matsui: 402
3868. J. Garay: 395
3982. Y. Zheng: 387
4368. T. Matsumoto: 360
4790. B. Preneel: 335
4823. K. Nyberg: 333
5010. S. Halevi: 323
5280. C. Lim: 310
5350. S. Patel: 306
5394. D. Pointcheval: 304
5474. M. Stadler: 300
5832. X. Lai: 284
5842. T. Beth: 284
5845. S. Haber: 284
6118. U. Vaccaro: 273
6321. K. Ohta: 266
6398. A. Chan: 263
6506. W. Aiello: 260
6587. S. Wolf: 256
6626. M. Jakobsson: 255
6779. J. Camenisch: 250
6802. J. Black: 249
6898. R. Venkatesan: 246
6965. G. Persiano: 244
6986. D. Davies: 244
7017. S. Jarecki: 243
7097. J. Seberry: 240
7182. C. Crepeau: 237
7196. R. Mullin: 237
7778. R. Rueppel: 222
7961. W. Meier: 217
8114. S. Brands: 213
8287. S. Vaudenay: 208
8379. J. Buchmann: 206
8622. G. Blakley: 201
8655. J. Katz: 200
8770. O. Reingold: 198
8999. B. Kaliski: 193
9094. C. Boyd: 190
9124. R. Peralta: 190
9136. Y. Yacobi: 189
9278. J. Pieprzyk: 186
9358. B. Pinkas: 185